LibGuides: Highlighting Diverse Collections Archive: Pride Month: Understanding Transgender Life, Culture, and Scholarship

Resources

Tangerine
American film by Sean Baker, the story follows a transgender sex worker who
discovers her boyfriend and pimp has been cheating on her.

Trans Kids by Tey Meadow
ISBN: 9780520275034
Publication Date: 2018-08-17
A trenchant ethnographic and
interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children.

For Black Trans Girls Who Gotta Cuss a Mother F❖❖❖❖❖ Out When Snatching an Edge Ain't Enough
A celebration of trans women, goddesshood, a lament for our fallen, a sword for our living and a challenge to white supremacy, structural oppression and any who would dare try to erase us from existence.

Captive Genders by Eric A. Stanley (Editor); Nat Smith (Editor); CeCe McDonald (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1849352356
Publication Date: 2015-10-05
Stanley and Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics for a new understanding of how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of captivity.
Meanwhile, Elsewhere by Cat Fitzpatrick (Editor); Casey Plett (Editor)
ISBN: 9781627290180
Publication Date: 2017-09-07
A collection of 25 short stories from authors like Cat Fitzpatrick, Casey Plett, Imogen Binnie, RJ Edwards, and more. Similar to a video game, readers get to choose their own path “from twenty-five preset post-realities.”

#Translivesmatter, Vol. 1
This issue features creative work by the incomparable Sasha Alexander, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Andrea Jenkins, Olympia Perez, and Rommy Torrico.

From Instagram

We focus this celebration of Pride Month by recognizing the vast creativity and scholarship in the trans community. Hopefully, this small sample of suggestions will spur further research and understanding.

You can find this post on the UT Libraries' Instagram here.